A Letter From Hong Kong
The myths of the obedient Hong Kong child, of the disciplined dronelike worker, of the person who puts money above everything else, are shattered for ever.
Peter Baehr
· 7 min read
Against Determinism—A Brief Reply to Jerry Coyne
The unambiguous conclusion seems to be that people are better off believing in either libertarian free will (which grants us complete agency) or the intuitive compatibilism (which grants us compromised agency) that they tend to favour.
William Tomos Edwards
· 5 min read
'Virtue Signalling' May Annoy Us. But Civilization Would Be Impossible Without It
Virtue signaling includes the best of human instincts, and the worst of human instincts.
Geoffrey Miller
· 9 min read
Keynes Has Left the Building: Remembering the 1976 Speech That Changed Modern Britain
Callaghan’s speech, a paean to the virtues of austerity economics several decades before the 2008 financial crisis, was a watershed moment in British politics.
Andrew Hindmoor
· 11 min read
A New Republic of Letters
Now, of course, letter-writing is dead, replaced by emails, texts, and social media. But we have lost something along the way—our social media feeds are often filled with drivel and do not provide an appropriate forum for long-form, constructive conversation and disagreement.
Daniel James Sharp
· 11 min read
The Feminist Case for Andrew Yang’s Freedom Dividend
A UBI system would do far more than any other policy proposed by the current set of Democratic candidates to reduce the vulnerability of such women.
Louise Perry
· 9 min read
Yaniv’s Other Racket: How a Single Gender Troll Managed to Get 'Hundreds' of Women Thrown Off Twitter
The larger discussion of how trans rights and women’s rights will be reconciled in coming years lies beyond the scope of this article.
Lindsay Shepherd, Jonathan Kay
· 9 min read
Why I Don’t Live in Fear of White Supremacists
If we start to restrict civil liberties, spread panic and exaggerate the amount of hate and violence in our societies, we will give terrorists what they want: greater control over our political narratives and personal psychology.
Zaid Jilani
· 7 min read
PODCAST 51: Carl Gardner on Britain's Constitutional Crisis
Carl Gardner, a former government lawyer, talks to Toby Young about Boris Johnson’s decision to prorogue parliament, whether it’s constitutionally legitimate, and what the political ramifications are.
Quillette
· 1 min read
Preventable Deaths and the Need for Data-Driven Journalism
My primary goal—and Dr. Tyson’s if I read his tweet correctly—is to provide context. It is perhaps inevitable that our biases will continue to inform the responses of the general public on social media.
Evan Balkcom
· 6 min read
John Adams and the Search for a Natural (and Needed) American Aristocracy
But a further question remains. Where are the men—and, today, women—of real merit that our form of government allows to come to the fore?
Anthony Kronman
· 7 min read
In Celebration of Errors
Shouting someone down for speaking a thought in public effectively ends the critical discussion. There can be no further exploration of why the idea at issue is wrong, or what kernel of truth there may be therein.
Logan Chipkin
· 6 min read
Bitterness and Inequality—A Reply to Matt McManus
Equality of opportunity is not enough, according to Rawls, and a deeper conception of fairness would entail providing everyone with equal prospects of success.
Samuel Kronen
· 6 min read
'The Great Scattering': How Identity Panic Took Root in the Void Once Occupied by Family Life
The panic over identity, in short, is being driven by the fact that the human animal has been selected for familial forms of socialization that for many people no longer exist.
Mary Eberstadt
· 10 min read
The Drayton Icon and Intellectual Vice
Nevertheless, Drayton’s diatribe does reveal something important—not much about me, something about him, but mostly about the vices that fester in certain reaches of our universities, which serve to undermine rational dialogue and public norms of liberal civility.
Nigel Biggar
· 19 min read